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Title: Japanese quarters at Santa Anita
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued: 1942
Contributing Institution: Los Angeles Public Library
Collection: Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
Rights Information: Images available for reproduction and use. Please see the Ordering & Use page at http://tessa.lapl.org/OrderingUse.html for additional information.
Description: A little Japanese child meekly submits to a hair wash while a woman nearby also washes her hair on June 25, 1942. A far cry from the Axis concentration camps ravaged with torture, starvation and death, is the Santa Anita Assembly Center, where 18,500 Japanese are quartered on the grounds of the luxurious Santa Anita Race Track.
Type: image
Format: 1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00043915
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box 9180.
CARL0000048873
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/14706
Subject: Santa Anita Park (Arcadia, Calif.)
Japanese Americans--Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945
World War, 1939-1945
Hair--Shampooing--California--Arcadia
Arcadia (Calif.)
Los Angeles Evening Herald and Express photographs
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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